Thursday March 20, 2014

Photos from Play Smart Condom Pack Making Nights

During the month of February, Visual AIDS hosted three nights of condom pack making in our offices. Each week a different community member hosted, inviting their friends, and leading discussion. Chips were ate, jokes were told, Beyonce videos watched, friendships formed, hugs felt, and condoms packs made.

If you want to host a condom pack making event at the Visual AIDS office or in another space, email programs manager Ted Kerr at [email protected]

Ella
Boureau is a writer, teacher and translator living in Brooklyn. She is
the recipient of the 2013-2014 Queer Art Mentorship and runs the online
magazine and reading series: In the Flesh. You can see her work there,
as well as on The Rumpus, Huffington Post, Pretty Queer and Fullstop.

Timothy DuWhite likes to
describe himself as simply one raucous heart just trying to unlearn all
of the noise he has made. Through mistakes, short-comings, and failures
Timothy has been able to fashion himself a body of work that speaks
directly to the value of transparency and self-accountability. Timothy
works as the newest Program Coordinator at Urban Word NYC; a non-profit
organization dedicated to promoting literacy in the youth through the
use of writing workshops and Hip Hop as a means of pedagogy. Timothy has
dedicated his journey of both artist-hood as well as person-hood to the
preservation of story, to our stories. Timothy believes that by sharing
our individual experiences and maintaining a dialogue of honesty
amongst ourselves we can better navigate this behemoth we call life.

Zachary Frater is an artist, writer, curator and
performer. He curated the exhibition, HARD OPENING for HONEST
BODIES, art and writing by queer artists of color and allies.